Constrained writing contest #13 - Promotion post

In case you aren't familiar with the Constrained writing contest, allow me to briefly describe it to you.
(You can find more information in the main contest post here).

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Each week I (or a guest judge) come up with different challenges to limit your writing. You are required to omit certain words, use a specific word in every second sentence, use a given sentence unchanged, write a story with a certain amount of words... or a combination of all constraints.

What is different to most other writing contests is that I never give you a writing prompt or an idea.
It's all you and your imagination! You're free to write about whatever you like.
So long as you stay within the constraints, of course.

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This week the judge is @foragingquietude, and she came up with the following constraints:

• Write a story with at least 1 speaking animal
• The story must not be set in a zoo, pet store or an aquarium
• Each animal’s vocabulary consists of only 20 unique words. They cannot learn words anew, but they can use words with different meanings to count as 1 word (example: squash, can be used as “a squash” – a vegetable, or “to squash” – a verb meaning to crush) and they can form plurals and past tenses of words. They can, for example say “use, using, used” and it only counts as 1 unique word
• The story must be at least 250 words long

And @foragingquietude and I both posted example stories to make it a little easier for you to get ahold of the contest:

Example story by @foragingquietude can be found here.
Example story by @svashta can be found here.

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Prizes for Constrained Writing Contest #12

Because of some technical difficulties with the contest #12, the prizes were distributed around 10 minutes ago instead of at the time of the initial post's payout.

Here are the prizes for the winners of Constrained Writing Contest #12:

• 1st place - 2,001 SBD + 0,336 STEEM : @felt.buzz with the entry “Kipper”.

• 2nd place - 1,203 SBD + 0,201 STEEM : @theprintuplist with the entry "MS. SWEETHEART".

• 3rd place - 0,802 SBD + 0,134 STEEM : @foragingquietude with the entry "The Day That Changed Her Life".

As always, here's some proof of payment:

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Prizes for Constrained Writing Contest #13

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Constrained Writing Contest draws its prize pool from the payout of the main contest post, found here, and pays out the entirety of the post's payout.

both the SBD and STEEM!

Here is how the prizes get distributed:

• 1st place: 45% of post's payout
• 2nd place: 27% of post's payout
• 3rd place 18 % of post's payout
• Judge (@simgirl) takes 5 % for his/her efforts
• I will take 5 % for hosting, writing and editing the contest

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To all participants of the contest...
And those who are yet to be...

Good luck!

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